The third month after the children of Israel departed out of Egypt, that same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai, and there about the region of the mount they fixed their tents.  Moses ascended into the hill unto God.  God called him on the hill and said:  This shalt thou say to the house of Jacob and to the children of Israel.  Ye yourselves have seen what I have done to the Egyptians, and how I have borne you on the wings of eagles and have taken you to me.  If ye therefore hear my voice and keep my covenant, ye shall be to me in the reign of priesthood and holy people.  These be the words that thou shalt say to the children of Israel.  Moses came down and gathered all the most of birth, and expounded in them all the words that our Lord had commanded him.  All the people answered:  All that ever our Lord hath said we shall do,

When Moses had showed the people the words of our Lord, our Lord said to him:  Now I shall come to thee in a cloud that the people may hear me speaking to thee, that they believe thee ever after.  Moses went and told this to the people, and our Lord bade them to sanctify the people this day and to-morrow, and let them wash their clothes, and be ready the third day.  The third day our Lord shall descend tofore all the people on the mount of Sinai.  And ordain to the people the marks and terms in the circuit.  And say to them:  Beware that ye ascend not on the hill ne touch the ends of it.  Whosoever touched the hill shall die by death, there shall no hand touch him, but with stones he shall be oppressed and with casting of them on him he shall be tolben; whether it be man or beast, he shall not live.  When thou hearest the trump blown then ascend to the hill.  Moses went down to the people and sanctified and hallowed them, and when they had washen their clothes he said to them:  Be ye ready at the third day and approach not your wives; When the third day came, and the morning waxed clear, they heard thunder and lightning and saw a great cloud cover the mount, and the cry of the trump was so shrill that the people were sore afraid.  When Moses had brought them forth unto the root of the hill they stood there.  All the mount of Sinai smoked, for so much as our Lord descended on it in fire, and the smoke ascended from the hill as it had been from a furnace.  The mount was terrible and dreadful, and the sound of the trump grew a little more and continued longer.  Moses spake and our Lord answered him.  Our Lord descended upon the top of the mount of Sinai, even on the top of it, and called Moses to him, which when he came said to him:  Go down and charge the people that they come not to the terms of the hill for to see the Lord, for if they do, much multitude shall perish of them.  The priests that shall come let them be sanctified lest they be smitten down.  And thou and Aaron shall ascend the hill.  All the people and priests let them not pass their bounds lest God smite them.  Then Moses descended and